Access Tokens

An Access Token is a credential that can be used by an application to access an API. Access Tokens can be either an opaque string or a JSON web token. They inform the API that the bearer of the token has been authorized to access the API and perform specific actions specified by the scope that has been granted.

Access Tokens should be used as a Bearer credential and transmitted in an HTTP Authorization header to the API.

Depending on how your application needs to use the Access Token, you can: